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Women's Division Chamber of Commerce
Activities to create civic consciousness & encourage/aid community development, idea exchange, women's orgs networking and government participation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $256,515 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $342,515 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOVE INC | $42,500 |
| AGEWELL | $30,038 |
| MUSKEGON RESCUE MISSION | $29,500 |
| MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE | $18,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,500 |
| KIDS FOOD BASKET | $15,500 |
| MUSKEGON CITY PUBLIC ART | $10,000 |
| CITY HEART MINISTRIES | $8,500 |
| EVERY WOMENS PLACE | $8,500 |
| HOPE PROJECT | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| PIONEER RESOURCES | $7,900 |
| YMCA | $7,000 |
| GREATER MUSKEGON SUPPORT SERVICES | $7,000 |
| BETHANY CHURCH | $6,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -94% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MFMISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +120%
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC7× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +29%
- ASAGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN4× · 2017–2020 · $64k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MCMUSKEGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $51k
- LILOVE IN ACTIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FCFRESH COAT ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The coalition to protect michigan resources's mission is to be a strong voice for the equitable co-management of michigan's fisheries, with both the great lakes and inland lakes and streams, to insure that conservation principles remain in…
Creating healthy communities - together
To provide a food pantry in southeast kent county, michigan serving some of the most impoverished communities in southeast kent county. to provide holistic aid to our neighbors in need, supplying them with the food and personal care items…
To minister to the physical, emotional and spirtual needs of people within the muskegon area, without regard to race, creed, color or religious affiliation.
Southwest michigan community action agency's purpose is to provide assistance to low income individuals in southwest michigan
To provide quality, recovery oriented, trauma informed, gender sensitive, age appropriate, and culturally compentent services to men, women, and children wose lives have been affected by substance abuse and/or mental illness
To promote the well-being and economic self sufficiency of individuals living with mental illness by providing job training, placement services, and other resources that enable them to gain employment in remote work settings. Through our…
Social welfare and issue advocacy
Member programs/services, economic development
Youth services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission for Area People and the most unlike its peers is Tempting Tables. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 54 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds AGEWELL SERVICES OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds FRESH COAST ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN FLIGHT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds READ MUSKEGON ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HOUSING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tempting Tables ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Muskegon County · United Way of the Lakeshore · Mercy Health Partners · Muskegon Community Health Project · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Consumers Energy Foundation · Folkert Family Foundation · Feeding America West Michigan · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Women's Division Chamber of Commerce funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.